Surfer Girl promises BioShock 2: New team to work on it, people sick of Levine (rumor)

Surfer Girl, the mysterious prophet who has become the gamer's Oracle of choice, today shares with us gossip from 2K Boston concerning the development of BioShock 2. After pointing to a Gamasutra job posting that stated the BioShock creators were setting up a new studio in the Bay area, the Surfing woman of mystery delved deeper into the story behind this relocation:

2K Boston is still recovering - a good chunk of the BioShock team did not want to work with Ken ever again, and 2K definitely understood the sentiment and let them set up a new studio so that they can make Bioshock 2, leaving Ken with Project X. A good chunk of the other senior 2K Boston people who were sick of Ken but didn't move to San Francisco ended up scattering to other AAA developers instead. In Quincy, they're essentially rebuilding a team from almost scratch again.

[CRIMS0N_W0LF]

Eat a D1CK

All the stuff you come up with can be figured from stuff already from the net. Huges companies do not send their secrets to a freakiung blogger.

[solar]

that just...made me laugh im sorry. it was funny :D

[gamesblow]

People are sick of Levine??? Well, I'm sick of Surfer Girl... I'd rather be punched in the ass by Caligula than to read her trite garbage.

[G_CodeMonkey]

Bubbles for wit... Best I've heard all day. gCM

[Kleptic]

yeah didn't Levine single handedly save that game?...early reports of development had Bioshock a mess...poor art direction, no grip on what type of gameplay the game should focus on, etc...then Levine came on board...fixing it, and yes...taking most of the credit...

If by "sick of", they mean one man came in and pretty much rearranged the game to be in the top tier then...ok...I guess I can agree with that...

I could be wrong though...I didn't think Levine was involved with the game from the beginning...I thought he came in later on in development to organize things...

EDIT: I apologize then...I obviously read something wrong somewhere...thanks for the update...

[Gorgon]

Kleptic, Levine was on board from the begining. Bioshock is his creation, although the game passed through different concepts first, but those initial concepts were his too.

[LightofDarkness]

Levine is a founding member of 2K Boston, he came up with the story and design of Thief, and was project lead on System Shock 2. Bioshock's his baby. These people are just basically being childish. Every game studio that pumps out great games has a very demanding, autocratic designer at it's heart. Kojima, Miyamoto, Levine etc. are all very talented designers who have great visions for their projects, and are probably often stern and forceful when it comes to adhering to their design principles.

[Charlie2688]

@Kleptic: if you mean saving as in "lets just remake System Shock 2 with better graphics, less depth and lets hope people wont notice" kind of saving?

then yes he did saved it >.>

[mesh1]

'light of darekenss plz i disagree with u HAHAHA KOJIMA and yamawhatever are not great devs not even close they have mad nothing ground breaking in yearrs mgs1 was kojima great game but that it nothing else he has touched is great so dont put him in class with levine which has sytem shock 2/bioshock/theif and otehrs not kojimma who only has 1 idea mgs anddoes remakes of the same game

[Relcom]

Dude or fat or ugly chick. Or fat and ugly chick. or a fat and ugly dude who is now a chick because of surgery. One of those i'm sure

[THX7168]

or fat AND ugly chick?

Is there such a thing as a hot fat chick?

[Relcom]

1 report will do not 3

[kingofps3]

English, please.

[Relcom]

3 TIMES, ONE IS PLENTY. Better?

[led1090]

gamers oracle of choice my a$$

[god_o_war]

what does this got to do with ps3 news???????????

[kingofps3]

TnS
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BlackIceJoe
The Round Peg

[TnS]

There were rumors about 2K Boston working on a PS3 game. So I think PS3 channel is not that bad.

[lynx1halo]

Surfer girl can lick the taint of a 400 pound sumo, who has just done a 15 min jog, 17 1/2 jumping jacks, and extra deep lunges, in the most extra medium of thongs ...PLEASE BELIEVE THAT

[GunShotEddy]

So "surfer girl" reads every other site, rewrites the stories as rumors, and we have to see it on n4g? SPAM

[Komrad]

today must be trash day. someone put this one out please.

[razer]

It doesn't take a genious to figure out there will be a Bioshock 2. This Surfer Girl is nothing but a poser who is doing their best to guess by reading the internet..

Btw - what is this doing in the PS3 section? This has nothing to do with the PS3 unless you are grasping at that rumor that they are working on some multiplatform game that includes the PS3.. But still has nothing to do with Bioshock which will continue to be exclusive to the 360/PC.

[Mr PS3]

It don't take a genius to know how to spell genius FOOL

[Cloud Strife]

are we getting so desperate for fanboy crapola that we now have fake a$$ bloggers just poping up all over the net and to the people on this site that keep voting this crap to be posted on this site over and over again. STOP IT!

[MK_Red]

What is wrong with Levine? He is a great dev that has made a superb game along with his team.

[HarryEtTubMan]

HAHAHAHA This "Razer" guy is SERIOUSLY A DESPERATE LOSER. LMAO Go rad his threads everywhere hes so jealous of the PS3!!! HAHAHAHA

[Laexerias]

I give a f*ck to a dude who hacks his own account to get attention.

[marcellizot]

gamesblow, please go and look up the word trite as you use it in almost every post and you don't seem to know what it means. I think you mean spurious, but you seem to use it as a suppliment for hackneyed or humdrum neither of which really seem to be in keeping with your attitude towards surfer girl.

Oh yeah and you are now on my ignore list too for being a dog brained dilettante.